Comments on: How do you measure blog success?

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Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:48:01 +0000

[...] How do you measure your blog success?. Dave at Davepress.net have brought a good question on how blogger measure their blog success. Perhaps some of the measurement attributes applicable to you. [...]

By: John Self

John Self — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:36:30 +0000

Quality of comments and of course views/stats. I’m fortunate to get a good range of knowledgeable people commenting on my blog and enhancing my knowledge of the books I’m writing about.

How about completely off-topic comments? Such as: “Someone needs your Linux-knowhow help on Palimpsest, Dave!”

http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=89779#post89779

By: dan mcquillan

dan mcquillan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:28:21 +0000

There’s some nice sugggestions in the web analytics guide from nixon mcinnes, including the Conversational Index:
“the conversational index is the simplest way of doing this - just divide the number of posts by the number of comments and trackbacks”.

dan

By: MJR's slef-reflections: Explaining web site improvements: what's important to you?

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:39:29 +0000

[...] suggest some other stats they’ve probably not considered and why they’re useful, along the lines of Dave Briggs’s measures of blog success. Finally, I suggest ways to improve the site. The top tip will be to take control of the site [...]

By: Justin Souter

Justin Souter — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:21:31 +0000

Dave - interesting question.

For me at the moment, it is a great way of having a voice, saying something, collecting my ideas.

I hope that, in future, people might actually *read* it, though critical mass is a long way away.

So, my measure of success at the moment is that it helps me let of creative steam - i.e. it is an internal measure, not seen in terms of other people…